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Crappie (Black & White) Regulations in Minnesota 2026

Minnesota crappie regulations in 2026: 10 fish/day bag limit. Zone-specific exceptions may apply — see the rule table below. Sourced from DNR.

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Rules (135)

Minnesota statewide
Daily bag
10 fish/day
Gear
Angling Only
Statewide aggregate per 2026 Minnesota Fishing Regulations (Inland Seasons and Limits, p.29-31). White or black crappie and hybrids combined. You may use up to 3 artificial flies on 1 fishing line when you are fishing for bass, crappie, rock bass, sunfish, or trout.
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Annie Battle Lake Including Inlet To Molly Stark Lake And Outlet To Blanche Lake
Possession
5 fish
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Annie Battle Lake Including Inlet To Molly Stark Lake And Outlet To Blanche Lake (Otter Tail)
Possession
5 fish
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Arrowhead
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Arrowhead Lake
Daily bag
5
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Augusta Lake Including Connected Clearwater, Grass, Augusta, Otter, And Caroline Lakes (Wright)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Bear Creek Reservoir (Chester Woods)
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Bertha
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Bertha Lake
Daily bag
5
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Big Mantrap (Hubbard)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Big Pine Lake (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Big Portage Lake And Connected Rice And Deep Portage Lakes (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Big Trout
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Big Trout Lake
Daily bag
5
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Borden Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Boy Lake And Connected Swift Lake (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Cascade Lake (Cascade Ponds)
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Cedar LakeOpen
Status
Permitted
Certified weight record: 3 lbs, 13 oz
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Cedar Lake (Morrison)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Clamshell
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Clamshell Lake
Daily bag
5
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Clearwater Lake Including Connected Caroline, Augusta, Grass And Otter Lakes And Connecting Portions Of The Clearwater River (Stearns And Wright)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Crawford Lake (Wright)
Possession
5 fish
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Cross Lake Reservoir
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Dagget
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Dagget Lake
Daily bag
5
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Dutch Lake (Hennepin)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Dyers Lake (Cook)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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East Twin Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Edward Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Eunice Lake (Becker)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Fish Lake Near Parkers Prairie (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Fish Lake Near Weetown (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Fish Lake Reservoir (St. Louis)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Fladmark Lake (Otter Tail)
Possession
5 fish
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Foster-Arend Lake
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Franklin Lake (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Gamehaven Lake (Boy Scout Lake Or Willow Reservoir No. 4)
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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George Lake (Kandiyohi)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Gilbert Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Gladstone Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Goodrich Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Goose Lake (Chisago)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Half Moon Lake
Daily bag
5
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Hubert Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Inguadona Lake
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Inguadona Lake And Connected Rice Lake (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Island-Loon
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Island-Loon Lake
Daily bag
5
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Itasca Lake (Clearwater)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Kalmar Reservoir
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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La Salle Lake (Hubbard)
Possession
5 fish
Possession
5 fish
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Lac Qui Parle Lake Upstream To Marsh Lake Dam
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Lac Qui Parle Lake Upstream To Marsh Lake Dam, Including The Watson Sag Upstream To The Diversion Dam (Lac Qui Parle And Chippewa)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Lake ConstanceOpen
Status
Permitted
Certified weight record: 3 lbs, 15 oz
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Leech Lake (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Lida Lakes, North
Min size
11"
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Lida Lakes, South
Min size
11"
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Lida Lakes, South And North, Including Mud Lake (Otter Tail)
Min size
11"
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Little Cormorant Lake (Becker)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Little Pine Lake
Daily bag
5
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Little Pine Lake Including Mud Lake West Of County Hwy 51 And Up To 425th Avenue (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Little Pine Lakes
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Little Rabbit Lake
Daily bag
5
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Little Sauk Lake (Todd)
Possession
5 fish
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Little Webb Lake (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Lower Hay
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Lower Hay Lake
Daily bag
5
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Mandall Lake (Chisago)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Manor Woods Pond (Country Club Pond)
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Maple Lake (Douglas)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Maple Lake, Upper (Wright)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mary Lake (Hubbard)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Maud Lake (Becker)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Medicine Lake (Hennepin)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mink-Somers Lake Near Maple Lake (Wright)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mission Lakes, Lower
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mission Lakes, Lower And Upper (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mission Lakes, Upper
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mississippi River From Brainerd Dam Upstream To Highway 6 Including Rice, Little Rabbit, And Half Moon Lakes And Connected Backwaters (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Moccasin Lake (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Moosehead Lake (Carlton)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Mound Lake (Todd)
Possession
5 fish
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Mud Lake (Otter Tail)
Min size
11"
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North Dakota-Minnesota Border Waters
Daily bag
30 fish/day
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North Long Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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North Turtle Lake (Otter Tail)
Min size
10"
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Norway Lake (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Orwell Reservoir And Up To Dayton Hollow Dam (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Ozawindib Lake (Clearwater)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Parley Lake (Carver)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Perch Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Pig
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Pig Lake
Daily bag
5
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Prior Lake, Upper And Lower (Scott)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Quarry Hill Nature Center Pond
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Rabour Lake (Chisago)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Rice Lake
Daily bag
5
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Rice Lake And Connected Inguadona Lake (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Riley Lake (Carver)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Rogers Lake (Crow Wing)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Rush-Hen
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Rush-Hen Lake
Daily bag
5
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Sarah Lake (Hennepin)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Sh
Daily bag
5 fish/day
Min size
10"
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Silver Creek Reservoir
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Silver Lake
Possession
10 fish
only 5 may be crappie
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Spider Lake (Hubbard)
Min size
10"
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Splithand Lake Including Moody’s Creek Upstream To County Road 432 (Itasca)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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St. Croix River Downstream Of Taylors Falls Dam, Mississippi River And Lake Pepin
Possession
15 fish
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St. Louis River Estuary And St. Croix River Upstream Of Taylors Falls Dam
Possession
25 fish
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Star Lake (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Strand Lake (St. Louis)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Stuart Lake (Otter Tail)
Min size
10"
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Sucker Lakes, Upper, Middle, And Lower (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Sugar Lake (Wright)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Sylvan Lake Near Pillager (Cass)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Sylvia Lakes, East And West (Wright)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Tail
Possession
5
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Twenty-One Lake (Otter Tail)
Possession
5 fish
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Venstrom Lake (Otter Tail)
Min size
11"
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Watson Sag Upstream To The Diversion Dam
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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West Battle Lake (Otter Tail)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Whiteface Reservoir (St. Louis)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Wild Rice Reservoir (St. Louis)
Daily bag
5 fish/day
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Willow Creek Reservoir
Possession
10 fish
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Other Minnesota fish regulations

Other regulated species in Minnesota with current rule pages — same DNR source, same verification cadence.

Also known as

Crappie is also called Crappie (Black & White), Black Crappie, White Crappie. Anglers in different regions use different names for the same fish, and the rules on this page apply to all of them in Minnesota.

Frequently asked questions

When is Crappie season in Minnesota?

Crappie season in Minnesota is set by DNR. Some zones may have specific open windows; see the rule table above.

What is the size limit for Crappie in Minnesota?

Minimum size for Crappie in Minnesota is 10 inches in Eunice Lake (Becker), per DNR. Slot limits or maximum sizes may apply in some zones.

What is the daily bag limit for Crappie in Minnesota?

Daily bag limit for Crappie in Minnesota is 5 fish/day in Arrowhead, per DNR.

Official sources cited

Reference only. Regulations change frequently, often mid-season. Always verify with DNR before keeping a catch.

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